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Hot cookies for cold days

I love homemade cookies…  and it’s the special kind of love since we don’t make them all the time.  There’s just something about that warm gooey comfort food that a cookie right out of the oven offers you.

Well – Kelli recently delighted me with a batch of homemade chocolate peanut butter chip cookies.  Like little doughy [...]

Snow can now blow Part 1

Last weekend we performed the annual chore (’07 and ’08) of getting the snow fence up.  That’s a run of snow fence, let me tell you.  And it’s not like we can just skip it this year (or any year).  The good news is – a lot of growth in trees and shrubs this year will [...]

Put the canner to work

by: Kelli

Last year we bought a pressure canner and really put it to good use.  Given the weather this year and the issues we had with our tomatoes, the canner didn’t get as much of a workout but we still managed to stock some of our shelves.

Canning our veggies and some fruits makes great use of [...]

Filling the freezer

by: Kelli

Around our farm Andy plays a key role in selecting the varieties of fruits and veggies we’ll grow and getting seedlings started early in the spring.   We both share the not so fun task of weeding during the summer but when harvest time comes, I play the main role in figuring out what to do [...]